Cristiano Ronaldo scored three goals in 23 minutes and is ahead of Messi in the titanic race for the title of top scorer in history

Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t stop scoring goals. This Saturday he scored three goals in the 5-1 victory of Al Nassr against Al Ta’ee for matchday 25 of the Saudi Arabian championship. In this way, the team in which Marcelo Brozovic, Sadio Mane and David Ospina also play, consolidates its position in second place in the league with 59 points, far from Hilal’s 71 and with a significant distance also from Al-Ahli, third, in a qualifying position for the AFC Champions League.

After a contested first half, which Al Nassr ended up winning 2-1 thanks to a goal in the seventh minute of injury time from Abdulrahman Ghareeb, the Portuguese star appeared in the second half to close out the match in three minutes. First, in the 63rd minute, he scored first after receiving a cross from the right from Mane and then grabbed a rebound in the 66th minute to make it 4-1 and seal the story.

In the end, a new goal from the scorer for CR7, with a header inside the small area, and thus he takes the ball of the match for the 64th time in his career. He has the impressive number of 53 goals in 59 games he played with his current team and leaves as the top scorer in football history 882 screams.

Lionel Messi, His immediate follower in this statistic accumulates 826, although his goal average is higher, given that he scored them in 1052 games (0.785%), while the former Real Madrid player scored them in 1216 games (0.725%). ).

The Argentine champion, still recovering from the same injury that excluded him from the friendlies against El Salvador and Costa Rica with the Argentine national team, scored 16 goals in 19 games with Inter Miami and he is 57 years old triplets his career. This is the dispute between these two football legends, which will continue for at least a few more years.